The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban
The Justice Department is backing xAI against Minnesota’s nudify ban

The US Department of Justice has stepped into a court fight on the side of Elon Musk’s xAI. It is backing the company’s challenge to a Minnesota law that bans AI “nudification” tools. A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday and said he would rule …

Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute

April – 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all working with Nvidia to put together $500 billion in financing to turn compute […]

SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before
SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before

SpaceX confirmed completion in a regulatory filing. Bloomberg’s Carmen Arroyo and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the close. The desk covered the binding agreement in June, when SpaceX filed an 8-K and said it expected to complete in the third quarter, su…

Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work
Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent “AI teammates” that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environment, and can sign into apps, tools, and websites you already use to complete multi-step workplace tasks, only coming back when their assigned work […]

SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work
SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as the agent race moves to office work

SpaceXAI has launched Grok Bot in beta, AI agents that sign into apps and websites, retain context between tasks and coordinate with each other. Access is limited at first to SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra and Cursor Teams Premium subscribers, with an e…

Musk’s Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar
Musk’s Terafab chip plant will run on gas, not Tesla solar

SpaceX confirmed it will power Terafab, its $16.8 billion chip megafactory in Texas, with its own natural gas power plants and “very large battery arrays.” Tesla solar isn’t in the plan.
That’s despite Tesla being a partner on the project, and despite …

X’s head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down after a year
X’s head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down after a year

One of X’s most visible executives is heading for the door. Nikita Bier is stepping down as the platform’s head of product after roughly 13 months in the job. He arrived with a specific reputation. Bier is a serial entrepreneur known for building viral…

Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months

xAI’s Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a “massive improvement” over Wikipedia, apparently hasn’t been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. “As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months,” Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in […]

X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account
X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account

X has been ordered to silence one of the most closely watched accounts in Turkish politics. A court has told the platform to restrict access, within Turkey, to the presidential-campaign account of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The company is no…

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk’s universe of companies are.